Selling into Qatar from a Kuwaiti store: the debit card that stays at home
A Kuwaiti store that already sells to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain usually assumes Qatar is the easy one. Same Gulf, similar buyers, a currency pegged to…
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Websites, e-commerce, WordPress and user experience for Kuwait and the GCC.
Selling into Bahrain from a Kuwaiti store: the wallet decides more than the card
Bahrain looks like the easy GCC market for a Kuwaiti store. It is small, close, well connected and used to buying online. The trap is assuming…
Redesign and hosting move: why I launch them separately
When a Kuwaiti company commissions a new website, the new supplier usually brings its own hosting, so the redesign and the move to a new server…
KNET payment links: when they are enough, and when you need a store
A great deal of Kuwaiti retail never touches a website. The order arrives in an Instagram message or a WhatsApp chat, somebody replies with a KNET…
Selling into Saudi Arabia from a Kuwaiti store: the payment decisions come first
A Kuwaiti store that wants Saudi customers usually starts by asking which plugin to install. The better first question is where the payment will be acquired,…
What a supplier handover has to contain before you switch
Changing web supplier is an access problem, not a technical one. The accounts that decide it — domain, DNS, hosting, licences and the three Google properties — and the five-step test that…
Do you need a Kuwaiti company to build your website?
The question bundles four separate things together. Three of them have nothing to do with where the supplier is registered, and the fourth is not the one people worry about.
The plugin that is holding your site hostage
Why one plugin makes a WordPress site un-updatable, how to find it in an hour, and how to get out without rebuilding.
The checkout that works for you and fails for your customer
Five places a Kuwaiti checkout breaks for customers and not for the owner, and how to test each one in an afternoon.
Theme, page builder or custom: choosing what you can still change later
The three routes to a WordPress site differ in what you can change in year three, and in where your content lives.
The pages a Kuwaiti company actually needs, and the ones it does not
Which pages carry the work, which exist to make a quotation look thorough, and how to decide it from your own enquiries.
Whether your developer is the bottleneck, or the brief is
How to tell whether your web project is slow because of the supplier or because of the brief, measured in an afternoon.